In 2018, we published the Practical Guide to Critical Ultrasound. This free open access resource is available Apple Vol 1 A apple.co/36p2QuO Vol 1 B apple.co/3KQkaI8 Vol 2 apple.co/37XbXTG Google Play App: lnkd.in/e4igBmcy

Help pick the winner of SAEM’s FOAM Showcase! Contestant 1 of 4: University Hospitals Cleveland EM Residency ow.ly/l9lG50OsoPO 1 point for a like, 3 points for an RT, 5 points for a comment Deadline: May 25th at midnight #FOAMed #SAEMsGotTalent Ali S. Raja, MD Lauren Westafer, DO MPH MS Andy Little Aalap Shah

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Nice work from former MUSC Cardiology Fellowship Programs Shailee Shah - using a Multimodality Imaging Approach to Define Risk in Patients With Acute pulmonary embolism. Sheldon Litwin #TomTodoran Dharini Ramu MUSC Cardiology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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For a relatively small amount of $, a group of experts in the relevant medical content, cog psych & curriculum design could create a shared, virtual curriculum for most of Y1&2 that would far surpass what any one school could create on its own. #MedEd npr.org/sections/healt…

#CCR23: In the DEVICE trial, the use of video laryngoscopy in critically ill patients undergoing intubation in the ED or ICU resulted in a higher incidence of successful intubation on the first attempt than direct laryngoscopy. nej.md/43H2t79

Can GPT-4 solve really hard medical cases and come up with a good list of differential diagnoses? Zahir Kanjee MD, MPH, FACP Byron Crowe and my study is out in JAMA , and the short answer is, “Yes.” But what does this all mean? 🧵⬇️ x.com/jama_current/s…

Emergency medicine consults

"It's really normal in medicine to watch someone die then eat lunch" --panel on burnout and mental health in medicine Jesse Ehrenfeld MD MPH Alister Martin MedFluencers Jessi Gold MD MS Dr. Adam Goodcoff

Landmark Day for Occlusion MI - Non-Occlusion MI (OMI/NOMI) paradigm, founded by Smith, Pendell Meyers, and Emre Aslanger salah al-zaiti et al. (with Stephen W. Smith among co-authors). First published study (in Nature Medicine) to show AI solution to ECG OMI Diagnosis. Excellent

Whenever I hear one of my physician colleagues ask “how is the hospital going pay for X?” I want to remind them that US hospitals are enormously profitable and what we should be asking is this: “Is withholding X really how we think this hospital should be making its profit?”

In this study of critically ill adults in ED, the physicians gut impression within 15 minutes performed better than any other existing tool in identifying sepsis So why do we feel forced to use screening tools which we know cause their own problems? annemergmed.com/article/S0196-…

Shout out to these authors for being the real heroes

GOOD NEWS Oklahoma docs!! On March 29th, OK Governor Kevin Stitt vetoed SB458, the bill that would have given NPs independent practice. Best statement ever...highlighted in red. THEY MADE A CHOICE. Now they want to move the goalposts. Another governor saw the light. Right on.

Raise your hand if you have ever personally knocked it out of the park at SonoGames! Congratulations to the Mean Gels for advancing to the second round of SonoGames! #Fetch #MUSCEM

Really fantastic Highyield round up of the articles/guidelines from 2023 that may change how you practice after 2023. Available here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Awesome group of people to work with as well!

New ESC Guidelines on AF with updated score #esccongress2024